Nebraska has been trying to regain a recruiting toehold in the Hawaiian islands the past few years, but so far they've come up empty. The Husker staff went down to the wire with Hawaiian prospects in each of the last two classes with nothing to show for it.

But that doesn't mean that they've given up recruiting to the state. For their 2013 class, NU is pursuing one of the top interior defensive linemen in the country and they're having good initial success.